The Mickey Finn are one of those cult 60s Mod bands shrouded in mystery who have yet to enjoy a retrospective of their own – until now! They started life as Mickey Finn & The Blue Men on ska label Blue Beat, coinciding with the craze for Jamaican music which exploded in 1964. A shift […]

This Path Tonight is the new studio album and collection of 10 original songs from Graham Nash. Produced by Shane Fontayne, this is Nash’s first solo record of new music in fourteen years. The album is one of reflection and transition of a singer-songwriter whose career (the Hollies, CSN, CSNY) has spanned more than five […]

One of folk’s brightest young talents sets aside traditional balladry for a self-written third album centred on young love and the exuberance and shadows of twentysomething life. Maz O’Connor swoops up and down the scales with the elan of early Joni Mitchell (though her voice comes with an edge), and pieces like A Winter’s Blues […]

“Brand new release of a set of home recordings made by John Hartford and fiddling legend Howdy Forrester. This recording preserves a repertoire of many rare, old Hickman County, Tennessee, tunes that Howdy had learned as a boy from his Great Uncle, Bob Cates. Hartford plays banjo, Forrester fiddles, and the two share informal discussion about the […]

It’s hard to believe that Balance The Light is Dropkick’s 14th album. The East Coast Scots certainly don’t sound (or look) like grizzled veterans of the rock’n’roll world while the album is as fresh as a daisy and brimming with energy. Over the course of 16 years they’ve gathered a well deserved reputation as purveyors […]

Cheap Star’s dreamy vocals and urgent guitars pick up where the Posies left off in the search for the perfect guitar pop, and also visit the Country for some lovely acoustic songs with a tiny drop of Nashville twang. Their current step puts them more in line with heartache of Mssrs Chilton, Bell & Parsons….might […]